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06.08.2004, 19:35 Uhr
Bernard Haste
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I have this week visited Hewden Stuart and obtained further details in my quest for the history of the AK680 they owned. I was given two large photographs, one showing the three crane job at Fawley in 1981, and the other showing a very large luffer job with 107m of luffer - an increase of 12m over the normal maximum rig for this crane. I was also shown a number of other photographs and discussed with them the accident at Goole when the crane collapsed. They gave me a date for this but it is not consistent with other information I have about the accident. Can anyone shed any light on when exactly the accident happened?
It happens that the Sarens AK680 was working not very far away and I was able to visit the site. I took a photograph of the three crane lift photograph (which includes this crane in Scotts livery) sitting on the windscreen wipers of the lorry cab, so I have a photograph of a photograph of the crane! I took a lot of other detail pictures which are very useful. The crane was de-rigging from 89m maxilift rig with 600t of maxilift ballast. They are doing four different lifts on site, one a week, and having to de-rig and re-rig for each lift! The bridge they are building crosses the M62 and the motorway is closed each Saturday night, so they have a lot to do to be ready for each lift! The crane is changing sides of the motorway for the lift this weekend compared to last weekend, so everything has to come out to cross a fairly weak bridge. I saw a lot of the ballast weights being moved.
Hope this is of interest. |
